1st year caprifig questions

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IAK

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I’m rooting Enderud just to collect pollen for manual pollination. If the profichi is the only crop that contains pollen, I should be able to just break off any figlets on new growth this year, correct? My goal is to focus it’s energy on vegetative growth for next year’s profichi crop.

Also, is there an ideal window of fruit age/size, where pollination is most ideal/successful? For example, 70 or 80 days after figlet formation.
 
IAK said:
I’m rooting Enderud just to collect pollen for manual pollination. If the profichi is the only crop that contains pollen, I should be able to just break off any figlets on new growth this year, correct? My goal is to focus it’s energy on vegetative growth for next year’s profichi crop.

Also, is there an ideal window of fruit age/size, where pollination is most ideal/successful? For example, 70 or 80 days after figlet formation.
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You can break off any figlets on new growth and allow the tree to concentrate on growing. Instead of ripening figs.
I have never really went by days. And size depends on variety. If the fig is developed enough the have a "pocket" in it.
You can pollinate it.
 
Gotcha. @GoodFriendMike, I know it depends on everyone’s growing scenarios/headstarts, etc, but would you say profichi ripen at around the “typical” breba time (late July to early August)? I’m planning on headstarting some varieties and thinking that the caprifigs should be headstarted along with them to make sure I have ripened profichi and pollen to pollinate the other main crop figs.
 
IAK said:
Gotcha. @GoodFriendMike, I know it depends on everyone’s growing scenarios/headstarts, etc, but would you say profichi ripen at around the “typical” breba time (late July to early August)? I’m planning on headstarting some varieties and thinking that the caprifigs should be headstarted along with them to make sure I have ripened profichi and pollen to pollinate the other main crop figs.
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They do ripen around the same time as breba. Mine normally mid to late May. If you are going to headstart your females. I would headstart the Capri as well. Or if you have more than one. Headstart one and not the other to extend your ability to hand pollinate without worrying about storing the pollen.
 
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